How to Edit a Moodle 1.9 Course

1. You can edit your Moodle 1.9 course easily by clicking the “Turn Editing On” button at the top-right corner of the course page.
2. From there, you can edit a section of the course by clicking on the icon of a hand holding a pencil. It’s a little difficult to see.
3. To hide a section, use the the eye icon. This will hide the section’s content from training participants, but the instructor and support roles will be able to see and access the content.

Add a PDF or other file

1. Use the “Add a resource” dropdown menu and select ‘Link to a file or website.” TIP: If you are adding a file, go to files in the sidebar first, add the file to your course files bank then go to “Add a resource” to add the link to the course. You can upload files in the Add a Resource menu, but it may take a little longer for the pages to load and upload.
   • Give the item a name that will be displayed on the course page.
   • The summary is where you can add instructions or a note to the students about the link/file.
   • Paste the website URLin the Location text box or click on the “Choose or Upload a File” button to add a file.
2. In the Window section of the Link to a File or Website settings page, the only settings to change are the Window dropdown menu and the Show Navigation menu. It is set to the default of opening the link or file in a new window. We recommend keeping this default setting for accessibility, but you can change it to open in the same window.
3. When the file opens in the same window you can set it to show with the course navigation. Choose “With Frame” to have a grey bar across the screen separating the file from the navigation. Or choose “Without Frame” to have the navigation appear without the grey bar.
4. Scroll down to the bottom and click on “Save and Return to Course” or “Save and Display” to preview the link/file.

 

How to Add a Quiz to a Moodle 1.9 Course

1. Go to the section you want to add a quiz and choose “Quiz” from the “Add an activity” dropdown menu.
2. Give the quiz a name that will be displayed on the course page.
3. Include instructions for the quiz in the Introduction text box.
4. In the Display section, choose the number of questions to be displayed at one time. If the quiz has 10+ questions, then display no more than 5 questions at a time to reduce the risk of a glitch that will cause participants to lose all their progress. For quizzes with 6-9 questions, show 2-3 questions at a time.
5. If you want the questions in the quiz to be randomized then change “Shuffle Questions” and “Shuffle within Questions” to Yes.
6. You can allow participants to retake the quiz by setting the number of allowed attempts. The default is set to Unlimited which means participants can retake the quiz as much as they want to get a better grade.
7. For the Review Options section, check all the boxes under the categories that best suit your grading window for participants to receive feedback for the quiz. This feedback includes quiz scores. So, if you want participants to know their scores immediately after taking the quiz, then check the scores box under “Immediately after the attempt.”
8. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on “Save and Display” button to add questions to the quiz.

Add Questions to a Quiz

1. The screen is split here. On the left, you see the questions in the quiz. For a new quiz, there should not be any questions yet. On the right, you see the question bank. There may be questions listed here if you have quizzes created in the course.
2. We recommend creating a new category (kind of like a folder) for each new quiz to keep things organized. To create a new category, go up to the tabs and just underneath select “Categories.”
3. At the bottom of that page, there is the Add category section. For the parent category, you can choose to have the new category nested under the default for your course or choose to have it set at the top. We recommend setting it to Top to reduce mistakes.
4. Give the category a name that matches the quiz name, then click on the “Add category” button.
5. Back at the quiz edit page, choose the new category from the Category dropdown menu.
6. For “Create new question,” choose the question type from the dropdown menu. The different question types have different fields and settings to go through. Click on the yellow question mark icons to find out more about the options.

Multiple Choice Question Type:

1. 1. 1. Give the question a name. Make sure this is descriptive of the question so you can find it easily if the quiz is ever set to randomize the questions. Do not name a question, Quiz 1 Question 2. Instead try, “Stroke-like symptoms” or “T/F: Dial 2-7000 Stanley Bergen Building.” This allows anyone who needs to make changes to the course to find questions quickly.
      2. To randomize answer options, make sure the “Shuffle the choices?” box is checked.   
      3. Choices in Moodle are the answer option. Be careful in these sections because you might just add an answer option to the feedback field and it will not appear in the quiz. Each choice has the Answer field where you input the answer option to be displayed. Then, there’s the Grade dropdown menu where you will choose the percentage of the points awarded. If only one answer is required, then the grade percentage is set to 100%, 50% for two-answer questions, and 33.33% for three-answer questions. Provide feedback based on the answer chosen by typing that information in the feedback text box.
      4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
      5. Overall feedback is feedback that is given for general answers for that specific question.
2. When you are done with the question settings, click on the “Save Changes” button. This will take you back to the quiz editing page and the new question will be listed in the question bank area. Click on the << icon to add that question to the quiz. Or click on the “select all” link and the “Add to quiz” button when all the quiz questions have been added to the bank.
3. In the Questions in this quiz section, find the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the question list. Then you can leave the quiz editing page.

To Edit a quiz question

Route #1

1. Turn editing on in your course, then find the quiz on the course page.
2. Click on the edit icon, this will take you to the quiz settings page. That’s not where we want to be, so scroll down to the bottom and click on the “Save and display” button.
3. Now, we can edit questions. Find the question you want to edit.
4. Click on the edit icon, make your changes, and be sure to save.
5. You can preview the question by clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the question on the Questions in this quiz area.
6. Save changes to the quiz before exiting the page.

Route #2

1. Find Questions listed in the sidebar of the course.
2. Choose the category and find the question you want to edit, click on the edit icon, make your changes, and be sure to save.
3. You can preview the question by clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the question.

 

Add a Certificate to a Course

1. Turn editing on in your course, then find the module where the certificate will be added on the course page.
2. Open the “Add an activity” dropdown menu and choose “certificate” from the list.
3. In the certificate settings, give your certificate a name.
4. For the introduction section, type in any instructions for the participants. For example, “Download and print a copy of the certificate for your supervisor.”
5. Under Issue Options, you can choose who to notify when a participant is issued a certificate.
   1. Keep the “Email Teachers” option set at ‘No’ because this will send emails to everyone in the course with a teacher role. Some support people have this role and do not need notifications about the certificates. Instead, add the specific emails of the person or people to be notified.
   2. Saving the certificates will keep the issued certificates in the system. This setting is not necessary as the system shows all issued certificates already, but you can set this option to ‘Yes’ if you are concerned.
6. Locking Options will keep the certificate inaccessible to participants until certain requirements are met.
7. REQUIRED COURSE GRADE: If every quiz and assignment needs to be completed and the total grade equals a specific percentage then change this option to ‘Yes.’ If the certificate requires a specific grade from one quiz or assignment then skip down to the “Dependent Activities” setting.
8. DEPENDENT ACTIVITIES: Choose the assignment or quiz that needs to be seen or graded before the participant can access the certificate.
9. Under the Linked Activity column, choose the activity from the dropdown menu. This menu will list all the activities in the course.
10. Under Required Grade, set it to the grade percentage needed to access the certificate.
11. TEXT OPTIONS: This is the information that will be printed on the certificate.
    • The most common information on certificates are:
      • Print date – yes
      • Date format – January 1, 2000
12. DESIGN OPTIONS: This is how the certificate will look.
    • The most common settings for the design are:
    • Certificate type – Landscape
    • Border Image – (any of the blue or green)
    • Watermark Images – Fleur de Lis
    • Seal or Logo – Logo_small
13. Save and display to preview the certificate and make sure it looks right. Make any changes if needed then click on Save and return to course.